Day 1 & 2 in SUPER SHARP seven - term 4

Welcome back to term 4...what a fabUlous start....

Reminders: 

Pet Day next Tuesday 18th October - school finishes on this day at 12.30pm

Weeks 2-3 we will be doing an e-asstle writing example, this is going to be very exciting as it is narrative (story).

Week 3: We have Labour Day on Monday 24th October.

Week 4: Tuesday 1st November = athletics day. Wednesday 2nd November = Ko Wairarapa Haka challenge

Our new maths topic - measurement - did you know that the length of your foot can be the same length as.....(ask your child) .....
Here we are measuring Fergus's foot (below....)

Ali & Jet were working out 1 square metre - here they have made 1 metre squared....they estimated that 7 children would fit in the square - it was actually 14 children!!!!

SHARP time - our whole school reward for our SHARP tokens was free time for a period. Miss Burt saved this hour for our first day back - WHAT A GREAT TIME had by all. Jet, Fergus, Max & Harrison - above are making crafts...

Douglas and Jackie hard at work...

Ava, Tyah, Jordyn & Niysa playing with things from the toy box. 

Ali & Dallas made a judging table where they were judging some of the children's drawings...

The shield craft & drawing crew....Elliot, Charlie, Kane, Cam & Logan ..

Kuini and her wonderful craft making - what a delightful young girl...she made several cards and this bag for some of the children and Miss Burt. 

The fort girls...Annabelle, Petra & Esther....

The art group - Campbell and Mackenzie - overlooked by the teacher Liv. 

Logan and his amazing drawing....

Having f u n!!!!

SHARP time....

Douglas cutting out squares for his maths. 

Woohoo 100% for measurement maths...well done Petra, Logan & Ali ...=)

How many children could fit into Ali & Jet's 1 square metre?

Weighing Peter Rabbit...how many grams?

Weighing Richie =) 

Spot on 100g...

Ava & Fergus were weighing some things that were both 400g - this many beads is the same as the teacher award. 

400g both....well done Fergus & Ava. 

 OUr new Inquiry topic - food packaging and the advertising behind it all.
Here we have a variety of cracker boxes.....the children gave each box a score out of 10-and told the class why they did so.
Discussing things such as: colour, shape, lettering, pictures, photos, use of display etc...

Here the children are discussing the food packaging and giving scores out of 10. 

Muesli bar packets - which one do you like best? Least? And why....

Term 3 - finished.

Kia ora and welcome to the school holidays - term 3 - over and out.

I hope you got a chance to read the term 3 certificate I gave your child - a showcase of some of the wonderful things we have done over the term.

AUCTION DOLLARS for home learning - below are photos to show the children in order....

OUR TOP DOLLAR students....Liv WON again......with $1300 ..... yay well done to all the children. We had fun on Thursday doing the auction and the children all got some little goodies to take home. 

Whaea Suzanne is our wonderful teacher of te reo Māori. Suzanne works with us teachers on a Wednesday morning from 8am-8.30am. Last week Suzanne was in with Room 7 to watch me teach and join in with our te reo Māori lesson which was using numbers up to the thousands (mano).

Working out the numbers....

Jet helping to lead the game. 

Clean up NZ day - we went out as a class on Friday to pick up rubbish in our neighbouring streets....it started raining so we had to call it quits. But we did manage to get a full bag. =(

ALL (accelerated learning in literacy) and ALiM (accelerated learning in maths)....celebration time.
Well done to the ALL Room 7 group of: Jet, Liv, William & Elliot
ALiM Room 7 group of: Max, Tyah, Ava & Harry.
It was so good to see a good group of parents turn up to share in this celebration. The children shared a couple of things they had found fun in their groups and also a couple of things they had learnt.

Jet sharing his ALL work with his mum. 

Max sharing his ALiM work with his parents. 

Harry sharing his ALiM work with his dad. And Hamish (Ava's dad) to the right....listened to Tyah share her work. 

Sarah, Liv's mum has a small group of ALL children sharing their work. 

Tyah, Hamish and Ava sharing and listening to ALiM work. 

Our Māori legend art work - wow the children have produced some amazing art for pet day based on several Māori legends.....the big reveal will be in our school hall on October the 18th for pet day.

Here are some of the Māori patterns that the children used in their art work. 

SHARP STUDENT...well done to Jordyn who received the SHARP certificate for graduating from STEPS programme. Jordyn has done really well working with Stacey one of our teacher aides...STEPS is a literacy/spelling programme.

FANTASTIC reading answers - well done goes to Logan, Petra and Esther for great full written answers in their report reading. 

WOOHOO -----auction time...below are the goodies.......

Harrison showing his stash of cash =) 

Ali was a right sport and had us in fits of laughter.....his present was a bit mixed up ....

ANOTHER very SHARP student - Mr Douglas for great handwriting and maths. Douglas is showing determination in both of these subjects. He is also awesome at leading the class in the school karakia and on Thursday he led the class in the Ko Wairarapa haka.

HAPPY HAPPY ....birthday to Mr Harrison - who has a birthday in the holidays. We sang Harrison happy birthday and wish him lots of fun on his special day.

Happy and safe holidays to all of Room 7 ....